Emily E. Weinstein

Born in 1955 in Newburgh, New York. Has lived in New York, Virginia, Greece, France, Switzerland, England, Oregon, and Colorado. Presently resides in Durham.

Formal art studies principally at Academie Charpentier in Paris, West Surrey College of Art in England and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond...BFA degree in painting from VCU.

Selected solo shows: Franklin Square Gallery, Southport, NC; Durham Art Council; Fayetteville Art Museum; Danville Museum of Art; The Paper Plant, Raleigh, NC; Council for the Arts, Jacksonville, NC; Bank of the Arts, New Bern, NC; Iredell Museum of Art & Science, Statesville, NC; The Ark Gallery, Greensboro, NC; Center/Gallery, Carrboro, NC; The McPhearson Center, High Point, NC; The Ninth Street Gallery, Durham, NC; The Horace William House, Chapel Hill, NC; Carytown Art Gallery, Richmond, VA; Keane Mason Gallery, NYC; Charwood Gallery, Roanoke, VA; West Surrey Gallery, Farnham, England...

Photograph by Bernard Thomas of The Herald Sun

Most recent grants were from the Durham Arts Council for the Emerging Artist Grant, Mary Biddle Duke Foundation for the Hayti Heritage Square Mural Project, and the Eno River Mural, Culture & Animal Foundation for the Animal Shelter Mural.

Some of Weinstein's work experiences include: filling four artist-in-residencies (Oregon, Nevada, New York and North Carolina); teaching portraiture, landscape painting, mixed media, mural painting, faux finishes; originating two businesses, Pet & People Portraiture and Murals-By-Many; living in a van/studio for three years while painting the unwinding scenery of America; and creating four books, the first three published and the last one, Saving Magic Places, soon to be.

Emily E. Weinstein

P.O. Box 3223

Chapel Hill, NC 27515

Phone: (919) 402-0160

 Email: weinsteinart@bellsouth.net

Photo by Annie Bogerd